2022 Toyota Venza
This year drew an ordinary 42 complaints for a Toyota Venza — the model's median is 59. What they were about is the unusual part: 23.8% of them mention lights, against 7.4% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 42 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 59 |
| Involving a crash | 7 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 39 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- lights — 23.8% of this year's complaints, against 7.4% across the model's other years (3.2×).
- many — 16.7% of this year's complaints, against 3.4% across the model's other years (4.9×).
- headlight — 11.9% of this year's complaints, against 1.2% across the model's other years (10.2×). Owners wrote it as: headlight, dark.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
Headlight / Dashboard design of this vehicle is defective. With DRL lights only on, the dashboard fully lights up, misleading a driver into believing they have their headlights and taillights turned on. This kind of defective design is not limited to Toyota, c…
There is a black shadow/blotch/blob in the driver side headlight. This blob bounces with the headlights depending on road condition. It is extremely distracting when driving at night. I live in an area with minimal streetlights and am often on dark, country ro…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 22V239000 ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC) Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Toyota Venza was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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